Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — He Saw a Great Light. [ARTICLE]

He Saw a Great Light.

Wrecks on the coast of Cornwall England, were once a source of revenue to the natives. A writer says that in the local dialect "the folks on tne coast talch their children to zay in their prayers night times, 'God bless father an’ mother an’ zend a ship ta shore vore .mornin’.” The Cornish folk were great smugglers, too. The Kev. R. S. Hawker had in his service as man of all work old Tristram Pentire, the last of the smugglers. One day he mad* to the vicar this nobble confession; “Well, sir, I do think, when I come to look back and to consider what lives we used to live —drunk all night and idle abed all day, cursing, swearing, fighting, gambling, lying and always prepared to shoot the gauger—l do really believe, sir, we surely was in sin!"